On the occasion of Father's Day, infotainment channel Discovery will present Pregnant Man on June 19 at 10.00 pm. Hosted by Gordon Churchwell, the author of the popular book of the same name, the show takes viewers on a humorous and thought-provoking journey through modern pregnancy from a man's point of view, says a company release.

Wearing an empathy belly for a day, Churchwell discovers that the husbands of women who are pregnant seem to experience some of the same symptoms that their wives do such as mood swings, dizziness and nausea.

In the show, Gordon dramatises his own experience by capturing the reactions of an expectant parent. To endorse Churchwell's observation is Dr Mack Lipkin, MD and professor (department of medicine), NYU School of Medicine, who has noticed that several of his male patients get sick during their wives' pregnancies.

Lipkin conducted a study into Couvade syndrome, which refers to the practice in which a father simulates labour and childbirth shortly after the birth of the child to demonstrate his role in reproduction and ease the mother's pain by sharing it.

This behaviour pattern has been known to exist amongst expectant fathers for long, and the show captures the anxiety of pregnancy in graphic detail.